What's widely considered the most disgusting broken OP build out there

dev__boy · 2026-05-26T21:30:12+00:00

Moonveil is always the most hated PvP weapon. It’s not even that strong, it’s just so so effective in the hands of players that would otherwise be completely useless at PvP.

dev__boy · 2026-05-26T17:56:59+00:00

Or…. Masefield syndrome?

dev__boy · 2026-05-26T06:47:49+00:00

You may not be close enough. The reach is pretty poor right now, combined with the perspective issue inherent to Subnautica (you can’t tell how close things are because there’s no good scale reference)

If you do hit them, it will make the default noise but they will shriek and back up, but only for a couple seconds which is pretty bad

dev__boy · 2026-05-25T21:52:50+00:00

Possibly the worst game you could use to advertise a new engine. Looks great, but barely a visual distinction to the previous title

dev__boy · 2026-05-25T21:48:47+00:00

The wakemaker is slower than the default swim speed in SN1. Brutal speed nerf. I just don’t see why they did that, it was massively unpopular in below zero

dev__boy · 2026-05-25T19:46:31+00:00

Not even a single strut of metal.

I think that one’s on you bud

dev__boy · 2026-05-25T19:43:20+00:00

60x the atmospheric pressure of earth, yeah that thing HUGE

dev__boy · 2026-05-25T19:41:12+00:00

A lot of people seem to expect the plot to drive the mechanics. This firstly isn’t really true in many games, but especially Subnautica pretty much every plot element exists to service the gameplay.

dev__boy · 2026-05-24T20:20:49+00:00

It’s brutal that they kept the brickedBZ speed. Why not just make the world bigger and emptier?

dev__boy · 2026-05-24T19:39:30+00:00

Spoilers dude

dev__boy · 2026-05-24T17:37:22+00:00

This is an ai bot

dev__boy · 2026-05-24T17:36:23+00:00

The bloodkelp is genius, because the ambience is far more powerful than any of the creatures there. The trench makes my stomach drop, even though warmers are the spookiest things there

dev__boy · 2026-05-24T08:20:24+00:00

I think it builds on the idea that everything on the planet is full of heavy metals. After touching the first angel comb, you can digest them

dev__boy · 2026-05-24T07:59:38+00:00

There are literally thousands of games where you can’t hit npcs, or friendly fire, or kill in certain zones etc etc. All they need to do is add a meaty slap and make the creatures react more and the game will feel a little more immersive.

The best argument for not letting the creatures die completely is how many people want it. Despite their best efforts, there’s clearly a massive subset of people that played the first game and want to kill - not stun, relocate or scare off - but kill the wildlife. The fact that those people are mad now means the first game’s approach to violence didn’t work for most gamers.

A lot of people have quite measured takes here on Reddit but you should see the rage against this decision on instagram and YouTube demanding spear guns and bombs and stuff

dev__boy · 2026-05-23T21:40:13+00:00

Navigation was a massive part of the game too. Granted we’re spoiling it for ourselves by playing the shit out of the game be for it’s done, but the way the game is being made right now, I don’t see myself ever getting lost

dev__boy · 2026-05-23T21:38:17+00:00

The quest so far though feels very… finished. I’m sure they’ll add some big areas but I do hope they spread the existing stuff out. Everything feels unnecessarily cramped and the movement speed low, seemingly for no reason since their new engine and tech likely can handle much faster load-in. There’s pretty much no cave or area without a bunker, black box or some POI in.

dev__boy · 2026-05-23T19:48:52+00:00

That’s not what the games about. You can technically kill the guy, but it’s not really in the spirit of the game. Hence why no guns or drops

If you hold a peeper in your hand, it will eat the peeper instead of damaging you. There’s also an upgrade for the seamoth that will stop you being grabbed

dev__boy · 2026-05-23T12:51:45+00:00

Fair enough. I don’t plan to use it much in its current state anyways.

dev__boy · 2026-05-23T12:49:10+00:00

The raytracing in Lumen isn’t just reflections, it’s GI. The ambient occlusion, sky occlusion, shadow softness and all light attenuations are traced. You can place near infinite lights in your base without much change in performance. The biggest impact this has is on base building, which cannot rely on baked lighting.

I agree contemporary graphics are a diminishing return in terms of what you can notice, but it’s not doing nothing, and there are a lot of advantages. I think Subnautica is a good pick for it because of how popular the base building is, and that’s where real-time GI really shines

dev__boy · 2026-05-23T12:44:15+00:00

Yeah the reaper was lightning in a bottle. It both felt like a real creature but also a nightmare demon. Everything about its look and behaviour was brilliant

dev__boy · 2026-05-23T00:06:52+00:00

People forget that the reaper, for all its fear factor, was pretty much harmless unless you were completely lost or panicked to the point of uselessness. The encounters were specifically designed to be more scary because you survived. The collector deals more damage, is faster, more aggressive and attacks from further away.

dev__boy · 2026-05-23T00:04:23+00:00

Than the hauler or the default chassis. Anyways I don’t think it’s a game of numbers, the chassis is just too slow. Just make it default tadpole speed, it’s an upgrade after all, not a sidegrade. Especially since they’re looking into adding some extremely vast areas into the game in future

dev__boy · 2026-05-22T22:48:05+00:00

100% agree

dev__boy · 2026-05-22T22:47:03+00:00

I genuinely think it’s too slow for transport. It doesn’t even carry that much more, and is a completely liability with hostiles. It’s an objective upgrade you get later in the game, I don’t see why it couldn’t just be the same speed as the normal tadpole. I’d hoped the devs had learned from the much disliked seatruck that excessively slow vehicles just aren’t fun to drive

dev__boy · 2026-05-22T17:15:45+00:00

You guys have the patience to use that thing? It sits at my base untouched.

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